David Brancaccio

I think those are all interesting questions that will be of use after these compounded disasters across the country.

Think about it, Jen, just on this little street, 15 houses burned to the ground.

In the community, 5,000.

In all of Southern California in those fires, 12,000 houses.

But across the country, right, we have an affordability crisis.

We need to build houses.

And I think it's useful that we're in Altadena.

It's a community known not for a cookie-cutter approach to anything.

Altadena, California, I think is a laboratory for ways to rebuild.

So we can just go on foot, actually, Jen.

We can walk to a bunch of places where people are trying it, not the old-fashioned way, where a crew shows up with a bunch of sticks and sheets of plywood and nails it together piece by piece, to see what are just some of the options for doing it for the next century.

This is a neighbor I'm jealous about.

This gentleman has almost a finished house.

Wow.

I want to know more about it, but he's prefabricated in a factory.

Large sections were built elsewhere and assembled here.

I've never met

Aloe Blacc, who happens to be a well-known musical artist.

But when I saw the prefab, I wanted to know more, and we were shaking hands for the first time.

We didn't get to meet before the fire, but one of the things about the fire is you get to meet the neighbors.